 Sevastopol from the seaward. Upon a future occasion we visited it in a steamer, and found that at one point we were commanded by twelve hundred pieces of artillery : fortunately for a hostile fleet, we afterwards heard that these could not be discharged...  An Illustrated Description of the Russian Empire - Seite 187von Robert Sears - 1855 - 686 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
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...fortunately for a hostile fleet, we afterwards heard that these could not be discharged without bringing down the rotten batteries upon which they are placed, and...of these celebrated fortifications, and therefore cannot vouch for the truth of the assertion, that the rooms in which the guns are worked are so narrow... | |
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...fortunately for a hostile fleet, we afterwards heard that these could not be discharged without bringing down the rotten batteries upon which they are placed, and...unable to do more than take a very general survey of those celebrated fortifications, and therefore cannot vouch for the truth of the assertion, that the... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1853 - 518 Seiten
...fortunately for a hostile fleet, we afterwards heard that these could not be discharged without bringing down the rotten batteries upon which they are placed, and...of the forts consist of three tiers of batteries. \\'e were, of course, unable to do more than take a very general survey of three celebrated fortifications,... | |
 | 1853 - 188 Seiten
...not be discharged without bringing down the rotten batteries upon which they are placed, and winch are so badly constructed, that they look as if they...tiers of batteries. We were, of course, unable to take more / than a general survey of these celebrated fortifications, and, therefore, cannot vouch... | |
 | 1853 - 538 Seiten
...heard that these could not be discharged without bringing down the rotten batteries upon which they arc placed, and which are so badly constructed that they...been done by contract. Four of the forts consist of threp tiers of batteries. We were, of course, unable to do more than take a very general survey of... | |
 | University magazine - 1854 - 790 Seiten
...that these could not be discharged without bringing down the rotten batteries upon which they were placed, and which are so badly constructed that they...of these celebrated fortifications, and therefore cannot vouch for the truth of the assertion, that the rooms in which the guns are worked are so narrow... | |
 | 1854 - 796 Seiten
...bringing down the rotten batteries upon which they were placed, and which are so badly constructed tb.it they look as if they had been done by contract. Four...course, unable to do more than take a very general sutvey of these celebrated fortifications, and therefore cannot vouch for the truth of the assertion,... | |
 | 1854 - 788 Seiten
...that these could not be discharged without bringing down the rotten batteries upon which they were placed, and which are so badly constructed that they...of the forts consist of three tiers of batteries. \Ve were, of course, unable to do more than take a very general survey of these celebrated fortifications,... | |
 | John William Cole - 1854 - 200 Seiten
...fortunately for a hostile fleet, we afterwards heard that these could not be discharged without bringing down the rotten batteries upon which they are placed, and...badly constructed, that they look as if they had been run up by contract. Four of the forts consist of three tiers of batteries. We were, of course, unable... | |
 | John William Cole - 1854 - 218 Seiten
...fortunately for a hostile fleet, we afterwards heard that these could not be discharged without bringing down the rotten batteries upon which they are placed, and...badly constructed, that they look as if they had been run up by contract. Four of the forts consist of three tiers of batteries. "We were, of course, unable... | |
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